Turtle Design in a Rabbit Age by Mel Lim

Author:Mel Lim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Considering that nearly eight out of ten businesses fail in the first 18 months, you would think there would be a culture for learning through risking and failing. 50 Well, actually, there is an annual private conference titled FailCon, created by Cass Phillipps, who survived a failed startup, that gathers technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and designers to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success. Failure should not be a dirty little secret that is swept under the rug. 51 It’s better to dispense with ego and hubris, really talk, share perspectives and war stories, and be smarter and more prepared for what’s ahead. And sometimes we have to do that thing we least want to: we have to pull the plug on a project and not chase after our losses or try to convince ourselves that a mistake doesn’t matter.

In our competitive global market we increasingly feel the tension between efficiency and automation versus devotion to craft and taking time to ponder and think. There must be a balance of both. It is important for us to continually practice and hone our basic, hands-on skills and stimulate our cognitive abilities. Too much dependency on automation and technology leaves us disconnected and even helpless to do anything if we cannot call on all of our innate tools to take over when circumstances dictate. Following a series of pilot-error airline crashes, NASA research psychologist Steve Casner conducted a study of the impact of cockpit technology on a pilot’s ability to fly a plane without the use of automation. 52 The results found that most pilots had rusty stick-and-rudder skills and their ability to think through situations was greatly compromised:

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